CHIPIC: An Efficient Code for Electromagnetic PIC Modeling and Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2002-2011

  Zhou, Jun ^a   Liu, Dagang ^a   Liao, Chen ^a   Li, Zhenghao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Computer aided highly efficient electromagnetic particle in cell (CHIPIC); magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO); parallel calculation; particle in cell (PIC) simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008056653     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2026477     Document Type: Article

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